Improvement in coffee-pot



N. LAWRENCE.

Coffee Pot.

No. 91,754. Patented June 22,1869.

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Letters Patent No. 91,7 54, dated June 22, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT 11v COFFEE-POT.

The Schedule referred to iii-these Letters Patent and making part of the name.

To all whom it may concern 7 Be it known that I, NATHAN LAWRENCE, of Taunton, in the county of Bristol, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and improved Tea and Oofi'ee-Pot; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in by a side view, a portion of the wall being broken away, and a portion of the handle being shown in section. a

This invention relates to metallic tea and cofieepots, and consists of an improved handle, which will not become so quickly heated as the-handles heretofore made for such articles, together with an improved construction of the bottom, to prevent it from melting, and an improvement in the method of forming the body of the pot.

In the drawing- A is the body of the cofi'ee and teapot, provided with a handle, H, the latter being made rectangular in shape, and the outer portion'thereof, which is grasped in lifting the pot, being provided with the vertical tubular passage h, from end to end. 7

This tubular construction not only diminishes the conduction of the heat, but allows the air to circulate freely through and cool the handle.

The pot is made of the common soft metals or alloys, in use for that purpose, and its side walls and bottom are struck up in a single piece, the bottom being concave on the under side, so that when set on a heated stove, only'its rim shall come in contact with the same, andbeing provided with a series of corrugations, a a, concentric with it, for the purpose of inboth outside and inside, and its heat-conducting capacity.

I attach around proportionately,

, Having thus formed the bottom,

which my invention is represented its rim, by any solder that will not yield readily to pot will fit nicely, as shown in the drawing, and attached after the rest of the pot is finished.

By this means I produce, at a comparatively slight expense, which can boiling liquids, and

be conveniently handled when filled with the bottom of which will not melt surface.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure ters Patent, is-

1. In a coflee or teapot made of the ordinary soft metal, fusible at low temperatures, the application'of the ring r, of refractory material, when constructed. in the form and attached in the manner described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a coffee or teapot, making the bottom concave on the under side, and providing it with a series of circular concentric corrugations, a a, as described, and for the purpose specified. v

NATHAN LAWRENCE.

Witnesses:

GEORGE BRABROOK, Canvm P. Hsnms.

heat, a ring or shoe, 1', of some hard, nearly infusible its inner surface, so as to form a socket into which thea handsome and durable cofif'ee and teapot,

down, although its rim is incontactwith a very hot by Let- 

